Why does this guy still have a job?

[n2doc]

Georgetown Prof: Assassinating Obama Isn't the Worst Idea in the World

Michael Scheuer has long been a grenade-tosser, from his days as a CIA officer to his anonymous 2004 broadside against the war on terror, "Imperial Hubris." Now, the Georgetown instructor has fine-tuned his argument: Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron are legitimate targets for assassination.

That was part of Scheuer's argument in a rambly, controversial late-December post on his blog, non-intervention.com. After arguing that Obama and his British counterpart have broken myriad laws through NSA surveillance and warmongering, are making more enemies among Islamists, and will further erode civil liberties, he goes for the literal jugular:

In their palpable desperation, Obama and Cameron will expand the use of those weapons and, by doing so, they will protect the growing power and durability of our Islamist enemies, while undermining the constitutional structure, the rule of law, and the civil liberties which, since England's Glorious Revolution (1688-89), Anglo-Americans have built and defended against the despotic drift of their rulers with argument, protest, and — if at last needed — violence.

The following week, he sharpened his focus:

Clearly, Mr. Obama, in a paraphrase of the Rev. Mayhew's words, is on the verge of "un-presidenting" himself not only by putting himself above the law, but also by making himself the sole source of some laws. If this process continues, American citizens are duty bound to act in the manner they deem most useful to stop the consolidation of arbitrary power in, and its exercise by the national government.

Stock tea party imagery, if weirdly Anglophilic, right? It's consistent with other angry populist comments on his blog about "Mrs. Clinton's American-killing performance in Libya" and an Ivy League-educated "self-designated coterie of elitists who believe they are born to rule rather than govern Americans."

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http://gawker.com/georgetown-adjunct-professor-doubles-down-on-call-to-as-1501076906

[Egnever]

1. probably because he is good at making people think.

I dissagree with his conclusions here, but what i dont want in a professor is safe unoriginal thought.

[Schema Thing]

2. think...stupid thoughts.

Glenn Beck also gets many people to think.

[Egnever]

3. True enough

[Blue_Tires]

4. more likely because he has a buddy in administration who owed him a favor

[LeftishBrit]

5. I don't want dangerous unoriginal stupidity either!

NO fan of David Cameron, but I prefer him to pro-violence teabagger types!

A left-winger who advocated such things would have already been at least placed on a no-fly list.